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Crop mystery? I'm gonna sound like an idiot

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Crop mystery? I'm gonna sound like an idiot Jim Clark 20 Aug 17:39
  Crop mystery? I'm gonna sound like an idiot Noel Stoutenburg 20 Aug 18:05
  Crop mystery? I'm gonna sound like an idiot Michael Schumacher 20 Aug 22:09
Jim Clark
2010-08-20 17:39:45 UTC (over 14 years ago)

Crop mystery? I'm gonna sound like an idiot

Crop--like tool #1 you learn to use. I have used it TODAY just fine, making the image I was cropping smaller. But suddenly, when I cropped I got the cropped area and a transparent area surrounding it. This was a one layer image. Nothing fancy--just took some screen shots and wanted to trim them. And now I've got my trimmed image surrounded by a huge transparent area, and I cannot figure out:

1) What changed 2) How to get rid of that transparent area

I have never used the Resize button before, but it seems to act just as the Crop button does. Tried it on pngs, jpgs and xcfs...all the same.

I am mystified. What did I change? How do I un-change it? Using 2.2.13 (happily, until today) on Linux.

Thanks-

Jim Clark

Noel Stoutenburg
2010-08-20 18:05:18 UTC (over 14 years ago)

Crop mystery? I'm gonna sound like an idiot

Jim:

Note that I am on the current version, and may not ever have used 2.2.13. However, in the current version, there are two "crop to selection" choices, one in the Image menu, and one in the Layer menu. The one in the image menu acts like you were expected; the image is trimmed to the size of the selection. The one in the layer menu acts just as you describe now, that is, the image around the selection is removed, and you are left with a transparent background. Sounds to me like you chose the wrong "crop to selection".

There at least two ways to correct your problem: you can select the desired area of the image, and crop to selection from the image menu; you can change the canvas size using the canvas size option in the image menu (Note: you may have to adjust the offset). There may be others, as well.

ns

Michael Schumacher
2010-08-20 22:09:04 UTC (over 14 years ago)

Crop mystery? I'm gonna sound like an idiot

On 20.08.2010 17:39, Jim Clark wrote:

Crop--like tool #1 you learn to use. I have used it TODAY just fine, making the image I was cropping smaller. But suddenly, when I cropped I got the cropped area and a transparent area surrounding it. This was a one layer image. Nothing fancy--just took some screen shots and wanted to trim them. And now I've got my trimmed image surrounded by a huge transparent area, and I cannot figure out:

1) What changed

The "Current layer only" setting of the crop tool options? See http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-crop.html

HTH, Michael